perplexing
Example Sentences
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Now, facing irrelevance and the perplexing 1960s, she falters.
The study also found a perplexing rise in unexplained illnesses.
In 120 paintings, drawings, photographs and especially sculptures, this Therrien exhibition offers objects hovering somewhere between immediately recognizable and perplexingly alien, wryly funny and spiritually profound.
From Los Angeles Times
It has been a perplexing and dramatic downturn in form - if not fortune.
From BBC
It’s both perplexing and extremely telling that “Hamnet” doesn’t let the viewer see the world through Hamnet’s eyes until the boy is near death, cast into a world between ours and the next one.
From Salon
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